Love this campaign from the Utah Stream Access Coalition; fly fishermen and outdoorsmen need steady reminders about how precious and critically important access to waterways and America’s public lands is to all of us. Sure, it’s high summer and August rolls around on Saturday and there’s a building sense of pressure to capture as much […]
Access and Public Lands
A quick snapshot of the statewide flow map is pretty sobering. And while the weather over the past 7-10 days hasn’t brought the blistering heat of several weeks back, flows remain damned skinny keeping temperature stress risk high. Kudos to FWP for taking a proactive stance this year with early institution of Hoot Owl restrictions. […]
News out of the Bahamas has thrown the salt-loving fly fishing world into a tizzy the past couple of weeks; the protectionist, punitive draft plan was a swing and a miss in just about every area. In response, last week the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust published a most interesting document (link below) they’d worked on […]
Since its inception in 1946 under Truman, the Bureau of Land Management has been responsible for the administration of more than 245 million acres of public land in the United States, nearly one eighth of the Nation’s land mass. The BLM has been using (more or less) the same national land-use strategy for the past […]
IF the current trend continues in the Bahama’s Fly Fishing Saga, as reported by this morning by Bjorn , we’re ready, along with an impressive proportion of folks we’ve chatted with in the industry, to kiss the Bahamas goodbye. A friend in West Yellowstone summed it up pretty reasonably – he said there are simply […]
As had several others before us, several days ago we suggested firing letters off to the two major newspapers in the Bahamas (the Nassau Guardian and the Tribune 242). The Tribune 242 yesterday published a very interesting editorial – Tourism Fury Over Fly Fishing ‘Tsunami’ – suggesting that anglers’ commentary isn’t falling on deaf ears, […]
The crack of the bat hitting the metaphorical home run heard yesterday happened when AFFTA stepped to the plate and penned a response to the repressive draft Bahamian fishing regulations being discussed of late. (I personally haven’t hit a real home run in a genuine baseball game since middle-school, though you know the sound of […]
If you spend any time at all reading fly fishing news and blogs, you’ve no doubt seen the coverage this week of the draconian changes being discussed in the Bahamas with regard to regulation of the fly fishing industry there. The rule changes are sweeping and at first (and second) glance appear almost punitive when […]
Matthew Copeland has penned a tight, eminently readable (Access Denied) summary of the shameful proceedings that led up to the last minute passage of New Mexico SB 226 on 20 March 2015 – by a single vote – stripping New Mexico anglers of the ability to access public waters flowing over private land. The heart […]
Ran across this piece yesterday in the Billings Gazette – Guest Opinion: Generations of Respect Protect Montana’s Open Lands. From the article – Montana open land defines who we are and what we are. The authors of this article are connected by blood, a grandfather and granddaughter, and we are connected to Montana’s great outdoors through […]
When You Catch A Politician Doing Something Right, Say Thank You One of our mentors once said that when you catch kids, coworkers or employees, or even politicians doing something right, you needed to stop right then, commend and encourage them, and even in the case of politicians – thank them. Kudos to the TRCP […]
A tremendous piece popped up yesterday over on WyoFile – Selling a Birthright: What would the West be like without its federal lands? It’s written by Chris Madsen, a well-spoken gentlemen who’s work we’ve read off and on for years when he was with Wyoming Wildlife. If you only read one thing covering the public […]
There’s a storm brewing, a big one, and it’s closer than we’d all like to imagine. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year there’s simply no way as an outdoorsman you could miss the growing malaise over the rumbling potential disaster that wholesale public land transfers would be. There’s been some […]
Details here and it looks like Park City Brewery’s Hooker Blonde Ale will be available to all those inclined to imbibe frothy adult beverages during the night’s entertainment.
Via Chase Gunnell’s blog post here.
